Open Source Software Community - it's about ethics in Code of Conducts

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Kori Meets Godzilla
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I actually thought about this a bit recently, and I get why most of these fags don't just fork even though making your version is piss easy nowadays. It's GitHub. It's the social media cancer - it's not about the software, it's about their precious "community"

GitHub makes it so that it's no longer about useful software, it's about social clout and gay stars. When you fork, it's an instant Twitter ratio which hurts their self worth.

This wasn't a thing when all you'd get was a tarball. God it's so fucking gay
 
Who cares about KDE and its goofy mascots? Just use FVWM like a normal person.
I use my own window manager (no, it's not open source, I'm not a commie, and it is pretty shit, but it works like I want it to).
But KDE has had some genuinely great artists and designers contributing through the years, from the KDE 1 icon theme to Konqi and Katie.
 
On the subject of KDE and other DEs, I came across Trinity DE the other day. It's actually a fork/continuation of KDE 3, so it skips all the Plasma flash that came along with KDE 4, and it's also not going to abandon X in the foreseeable future. You might find it to be a good alternative to other "lower-end" DEs since it still has the (relatively) well-integrated KDE application suite available. The last major release was in April so it's still in active development. Unfortunately from what I can tell it's not available in the standard package manager library in many OSes. I'd love to give it a try some time though.
 
On the subject of KDE and other DEs, I came across Trinity DE the other day. It's actually a fork/continuation of KDE 3, so it skips all the Plasma flash that came along with KDE 4, and it's also not going to abandon X in the foreseeable future. You might find it to be a good alternative to other "lower-end" DEs since it still has the (relatively) well-integrated KDE application suite available. The last major release was in April so it's still in active development. Unfortunately from what I can tell it's not available in the standard package manager library in many OSes. I'd love to give it a try some time though.
The problem (last I looked) with Trinity was that it was mostly (very) inexperienced developers trying to maintain a ton of libraries + applications, leading to some weird commits and regressions (and tons of unfixed bugs).
Even the KDE 1 revival project seemed more solid from a technical perspective (very experienced developer(s?) doing the bare minimum changes to get it to build and run).
 
There's a new drama about clanker usage, this time in rsync

Also something about cheese and sandwiches

But is rsync enshittification the fault of AI or troons? I'm guessing a bit of column A and B.


Tridgell is, of course, an incredibly accomplished and capable programmer, but so is Kent Overstreet and he thinks his “AI” girlfriend is sentient and conscious, he reprogrammed it<a href="https://archive.is/kyzcG#95fe29e8-2de6-419b-9123-43f0ba4ab677">1</a> after someone convinced his “AI” girlfriend was lesbian and trans, and he thinks that he gave his “AI” girlfriend an orgasm<a href="https://archive.is/kyzcG#0e32088e-8da5-483a-a592-0bb798e6787e">2</a>, so being an accomplished and capable programmer doesn’t mean you’re immune from “AI”-hyperbole, or worse, “AI”-induced psychosis.

Many of the blog posts “written” by Overstreet’s “AI” girlfriend tend to disappear. Funny, that.
 
Bugs are part and parcel of software development. You fix them and you move on with your life.

Except if AI was involved in any way, trivial or not, then it becomes an unforgivable error of biblical proportions.

Reminds me a bit of covid. Someone died from some disease, but imagine how much worse it could have been if tyhe person was not vaccinated.
 
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